Jean Meslier famous quotes

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To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without a palate, to smell without a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin. Nations who believe themselves very rational, adopt, nevertheless, such ideas.
-- Jean Meslier

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Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.
-- Jean Meslier

#Atheist #Lying #Believe
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.
-- Jean Meslier

#Men #Thinking #Rational
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.
-- Jean Meslier

#Kings #Lasts #Priests
... inventions and purely human institutions.
-- Jean Meslier

#Atheism #Invention #Institutions
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily understand that virtue is an advantage, and that vice is an injury to beings of the species.
-- Jean Meslier

#Men #Common Sense #Atheism

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

Jean Meslier famous quotes

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